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Only two examples are known from Maine. One. in the Chandler canactian,
cuated by the University of Maine at Orono, was collected from the 51. Croix
River drainage (D. Sanger 1988: personal communication). The second is from
Big lake. Washington County (5. Cox 1989; personal commll1ication).
Allen (1981: 141) has compared these points with nine similar ones
excavated al the Rosenkrans site in New Jersey, a Middlesex Burial site. Kraft
(1976: 32) proposes that these may have beer. the projectile point style used by
people of the Middlesex cullure. However, these appear to resemble more
closely Susquehanna Broad points, attributed to the Frost Island Phase 01 New
York state (Ritchie 1969a: 158, Plale 51, Nos. 5·14, 18).
The distribution of Group 3 stel1'VTled bifaces matches thai of the
Susquehanna Tracfrtion in the region. with roe notable exception. This is in
northeastern New Brunswick, an area with a minimal mmber of recovered
Susquehanna artifacts. As mentioned above. two possible Susquehanna
artifacts were recovered from Red lJank and a potentially related burial exists on
the southern shofe of the S1. lawrence River; however. more research is
necessary to ascertain a Susquehanna rxesence in this area.
Chipping and grinding technology for the manufacture of celts also
represents a Susquehanna Tradition trait present in the Early Ceramic Period.
These forms. however, are not as densely distributed as Group 3 stemmed
bifaces. Specimens are known from the Augustine and McKinlay siles (Turnbull
1976. 1986) in New Brunswick and the Goddard site in Maine. At the latter site,
two of these were associated with a radiocarbon dale of 2300±120 B.P.